Chris & Cosey

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Chris & Cosey
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General information
Genre (s) Industrial , electronic pop music
founding 1981
Website http://chrisandcosey.com/
Current occupation
Guitar, vocals, cornet
 Cosey Fanni Tutti
Synthesizers, tape recorders, acoustic effects
 Chris Carter

Chris & Cosey (renamed Carter Tutti since 2003 ) is a British band from the field of electronic pop music founded in 1981 , whereby the demarcation from art music is difficult and in many areas does not make sense.

history

In 1981 the British industrial band Throbbing Gristle broke up. Two of its members, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti (real: Christine Carol Newby ), who were also a couple in private, signed a record deal with Rough Trade Records for a duo under the name Chris & Cosey in the same year .

In 1982, in cooperation with Rough Trade, they founded their own label called Conspiracy International , which occasionally appears under the name CTI . As a result, more experimental recordings were published here that did not promise any major commercial success, as well as collaborations with other musicians and bands.

From 1992 onwards, due to health problems, they temporarily severely restricted their live performances and devoted themselves more to work in the studio. At this time there was also a cooperation between CTI and the label World Serpent Distribution . This connection resulted in numerous publications, often collaborations with other musicians and groups.

In 1998 they ended their phase of almost exclusively studio work and began touring again.

From 2000 they released two new CD series on CTI: The Library of Sound (LOS) and Electronic Ambient Remixes (EAR) . Both series (four albums each have been released to date) are instrumental, ambient- oriented music. The LOS series is expressly used as background music for art exhibitions, cinema trailers, etc., but is also played live at concerts. The EAR series releases are earlier solo pieces by Carter or Tutti that were remixed together . In 2003 the name was changed from Chris & Cosey to Carter Tutti . This was justified by the fact that due to a long-term development, the current concept was no longer identical to that of the early days.

In 2004 there was a reunion of Throbbing Gristle. Nevertheless, Carter Tutti continues to publish his own material.

style

Like Throbbing Gristle's, her style is shaped by a mixture of musique concrète and electronic music , which is characterized by a tension between electronically generated sounds, sampling, and mostly rhythms generated by a drum computer on the one hand, as well as acoustic, natural elements such as singing, cornet and Guitar on the other hand results.

Over the years there has been a continuous development of the band, so that in the course of time many musical directions found their way into Carter Tutti's work (see also under meaning ).

Collaborations

In the course of their career, C&C worked with numerous well-known musicians and bands. A selection: Monte Cazazza , Coil , Current 93 , John Duncan , Erasure , Eurythmics , Boyd Rice , Robert Wyatt .

Numerous artists have remixed songs from the band including: Carl Craig , Cosmic Connection , Fred Giannelli , Mute Records founder Daniel Miller , U -Ziq , Vapourspace and Andrew Weatherall .

meaning

In many areas of electronic pop music, Chris & Cosey has a pioneering role with a corresponding influence on later performers. In the 1980s they were early representatives of the techno and DJ scene as well as Goa music. Her album Trance was sampled frequently, the track October Love Song is considered a techno-pop classic and Exotika developed into a Goa hit. They are also known today as the creators of the modern acid sound .

Trivia

  • In a 1997 interview with Margen Magazine , they describe themselves as a group that makes electronic music with hypnotic elements
  • Chris and Cosey have a son named Nick, born in 1982.
  • Chris Carter says he is related on his father's side to Howard Carter , who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.
  • In a December 1993 interview with Work in Progress Magazine , they describe their music as more subtle than Throbbing Gristle's and justify this development as follows: “It's OK to crack a nut with force, but then you don't go any further and pulverize it with more Hammer blows, right? [...] TG were the nutcracker. "
  • When asked by a Brazilian fanzine whether they make pop music, they replied, “We don't see ourselves as a pop group. Pop is something to be wary of. [...] It is true that the material is of little importance there. Ours is honest and saturated with the reality of our life. It's something we don't take lightly. We open up ourselves and our views in our music. It is very special when people like our music. For us money is irrelevant, while in pop music it is the reason why it exists in the first place. "
  • Both have often refused to report on their private lives in interviews. As a kind of parody of the media's curiosity, their website contains a diary in which, in telegram style, details from their artistic and private life are listed.
  • Chris Carter writes for Sound On Sound magazine .
  • Both are followers of Neopaganism .

Discography

The specified record company is that of the first release, the numerous later new editions by other labels are not mentioned for the sake of clarity. For solo albums see the corresponding articles. Unless otherwise stated, these are LPs / CDs.

As Chris & Cosey

  • Heartbeat (Rough Trade, 1981)
  • Trance (Rough Trade, 1982)
  • October (Love Song) (EP, Rough Trade, 1983)
  • European Rendezvous (DoubleVision, 1983)
  • Nikki (7 ", Kokka, 1983)
  • Hammer house (EP, CTI, 1984)
  • Songs of Love & Lust (Rough Trade, 1984)
  • Sweet Surprise (EP, Rough Trade, 1984)
  • Elemental 7 (DoubleVision, 1984)
  • Techno Primitive (Rough Trade, 1985)
  • Thy Gift Of Tongues (EP, CTI, 1985)
  • Take Five (EP, Nettwerk, 1986)
  • Obsession (EP, Play It Again Sam, 1987)
  • Exotika (Nettwerk / Play It Again Sam, 1987)
  • Allotrophy ( Staalplaat , 1987)
  • Core (Nettwerk / Play It Again Sam, 1988)
  • Trust (Nettwerk / Play It Again Sam, 1989)
  • Rise (Nettwerk / Play It Again Sam, 1989)
  • Collectiv One: Conspiracy International (Play It Again Sam, 1989)
  • Collectiv Two: The Best of Chris and Cosey (Play It Again Sam, 1989)
  • Collectiv Three: An Elemental Rendezvous (Play It Again Sam, 1990)
  • Collectiv Four: Archive Recordings (Play It Again Sam, 1990)
  • Trance (Rough Trade, 1990)
  • Reflection (WaxTrax !, 1990)
  • Pagan Tango (WaxTrax! / Play It Again Sam, 1990)
  • Action (Play It Again Sam, 1990)
  • Synaesthesia (EP, Play It Again Sam, 1991)
  • Passion (EP, 1992, World Serpent)
  • Musik Fantastique (Play It Again Sam, 1993)
  • Twist (1995) T&B Vinyl
  • Skimble Skamble (CTI, 1996)
  • Union (CTI, 1999)
  • Exotika / Take Five (Remastered) (CTI, 1999)
  • The Essential Chris & Cosey Collection (CTI, 2001)
  • C&C Luchtbal (CTI, 2003)
  • Musik Fantastique (Remastered, + bonus tracks) (CTI, 2004)
  • Collected Works 1981-2000 (CTI, 2006)

As Carter Tutti

  • LEM Festival October 2003 (GliptotekaMagdalae, 2004)
  • Cabal (CTI, 2004)
  • Feral Vapors Of The Silver Ether (CTI, 2007)
  • Feral Vapors Of The Silver Ether (CD + DVD-Set, CTI, 2008)

The Library Of Sound Edition

  • Metaphysical - "The Library of Sound" Edition One (CTI, 1993)
  • Chronomanic - "The Library of Sound" Edition Two (CTI, 1994)
  • In Continuum - "The Library of Sound" Edition Three (CTI, 1995)
  • Point Seven - "The Library of Sound" Edition Four (CTI, 1998)

Electronic ambient remixes

  • Electronic Ambient Remixes 1: Chris Carter (CTI, 2000)
  • Electronic Ambient Remixes 2: Cosey Fanni Tutti (CTI, 2000)
  • Electronic Ambient Remixes 3: Chris Carter (CTI, 2002)
  • Electronic Ambient Remixes 4: Cosey Fanni Tutti (CTI, 2004)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The spelling CARTERTUTTI is also used, e.g. B. on their MySpace page.
  2. ↑ CTI stands for Creative Technology Institute. Carter and Tutti later released some albums under the band name CTI.
  3. ↑ A British label founded in 1990 by David Gibson, Alan Trench and Alison Webster and which went bankrupt in 2004 with a focus on Neofolk and Dark Wave .
  4. ↑ Carter also deals with experimental film art and makes short films herself, Tutti works as a visual artist and painter with her own exhibitions, see the artists' websites.
  5. ↑ Interview with FM Radio Station from November 1, 2004, published on the Bootleg Carter Tutti live at Resonance : According to Cosey, the old name is more associated with albums like Exotika and Songs of Love & Lust , i.e. the style of the 1980s.
  6. ↑ Dancing Ghosts from the album Elemental 7 from 1983 is considered the first known recording on which the two Roland devices 303 and 808, which are formative for acid music, can be heard. Source: Kleinhenz, s. Literature .
  7. ↑ on this and the following, see interview collection on the band's website
  8. ↑ Interview with Disappointed Magazine, June 17, 1997
  9. ↑ 1994, see website, the name is not given
  10. ↑ Online version